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Some people can smell ants. Others have no idea what that sentence means. The chemistry behind the difference is real, and surprisingly well-studied.
According to FBI Director Christopher Wray, the agency thinks Covid-19 "most likely" came from a "China government-controlled lab." He told Fox News that "the FBI has long believed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a probable lab even...
Administrators have selected an Australian competitor battery company as their top offer for the insolvent Britishvolt. Administrator EY announced on Monday that Recharge Industries, which is backed by US investment company Scale Facilitation Partner...
According to the chairman of a global energy watchdog climate change is slipping down the international agenda, increasing the risk that nations will decrease their pace in lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Fatih Birol, executive director of the I...
"Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction," the head of the United Nations has warned at the start of a high-level nature summit in Canada. In order to set goals for reversing the loss of nature, governments are convening in Montreal. We have...
The US, China and Japan are also advanced in the race to develop space-based solar power and are expected to announce their own plans shortly. Separately from the ESA proposal, in the UK, a company, Space Solar, has been formed. It aims to demonstrat...
On Sunday, Antigua and Barbuda environment minister Molwyn Joseph, and chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, said the deal was a "win for the entire world" and "restored global faith in this critical process dedicated to ensuring no one is le...
ReutersBy Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent1: The biggest win on climate since Paris...?A new funding arrangement on loss and damage - a pooled fund for countries most affected by climate change - has been hailed as a "historic moment". It can be...
NASABy Rob CorpSunday with Laura KuenssbergHumans could stay on the Moon for lengthy periods during this decade, a Nasa official has told the BBC.Howard Hu, who leads the Orion lunar spacecraft programme for the agency, said habitats would be needed ...
Getty ImagesBy Georgina RannardClimate reporter in Sharm el-SheikhA promise from the developed world to foot more of the climate bill has raised fresh hopes of breakthrough at the UN climate summit COP27.Nations meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, are...
Getty ImagesBy Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondentUN climate talks were meant to end on Friday but nations are deeply divided over cash to help poor countries cope with the impacts of climate change. The idea of phasing down the use of all fossil f...
"The proposals adopted today for the requiem and hammerhead sharks, championed by the government of Panama, will forever change how the world's ocean predators are managed and protected," said Luke Warwick, director of shark and ray conservation at t...
American Bird ConservancyBy Tiffanie TurnbullBBC News, SydneySome 140 years after the black-naped pheasant-pigeon was last sighted by scientists, researchers have "rediscovered" the rare bird.After a month of searching, a team in September captured f...
Getty ImagesBy Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondentUN climate talks head to a conclusion on Friday with nations deeply divided over cash to help poor countries cope with the impacts of climate change. The idea of phasing down the use of all fossil f...
ZSL, Alice ChamberlainBy Nayana Mena BBC NewsThousands of pieces of plastic debris from all over the world have washed up on a remote South Atlantic island, according to conservationists.Litter found on the south-western coast of Ascension Island has...
By Ziad Al-QattanBBC News ArabicAs Egypt hosts world leaders at COP27 to discuss action over climate change, an oil terminal is dumping toxic wastewater on the country's Red Sea coast, an investigation by BBC News Arabic has found. A rare form of cor...
The report reveals that in many developing nations - which are facing the worst impacts of climate change - women have greater responsibility for securing water, food and fuel for their families, which can be more difficult during floods, drought or ...
Dr Greg Asner, an ecologist at Arizona State University, says the information is "very alarming", showing pollution from lead, cadmium, copper, nickel and other heavy metals. "You don't have to be an expert to know that something is not right here," ...
NASABy Jonathan AmosBBC Science CorrespondentThe American space agency Nasa has launched its biggest ever rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The 100m-tall Artemis vehicle climbed skyward in a stupendous mix of light and sound.Its objective is to ...
Ayisha Siddiqa, 23, is from Pakistan, is one of the headline speakers at the Children and Youth Pavilion. It's the first time young people have had a dedicated space like this, where last week activists held a formal meeting with UN Secretary-General...
Getty ImagesBy Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondentA key target to stop climate change raising global temperatures is now in doubt at a UN summit.Climate change talks have been trying to limit the average rise in temperatures to 1.5C.But at talks in...
Getty ImagesBy Victoria Gill and Ella HamblyBBC NewsBirdsong, snowdrops, blossom and midge bites - these are not things you associate with November in the north of England. But these are just some of the milder side effects of a warming world. As wel...
By Owen PinnellBBC News ArabicFar removed from the world leaders making climate pledges at COP, are people like Ali Hussein Julood, a young leukaemia survivor living on an Iraqi oil field co-managed by BP. When the BBC discovered BP was not declaring...
ReutersBy Georgina RannardClimate and science reporter, BBC NewsIt is the duty and responsibility of every nation to act on climate, US President Joe Biden has said at the UN summit COP27.Mr Biden spoke in Egypt after US mid-term elections delivered ...
